Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. They have to manage themselves. They must have autonomy.

Knowledge Worker 40

Knowledge Worker Innovation Culture Productivity 40

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our work skills cannot sit still. Drucker We are truly in a time of incredible innovation of work skills.

Work Skills 102

Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I realized that a lot of the networking that I had done in person in the past could move online and actually be a much more effective use of time. This was hosted by the learning organization, but it looked more like a research, innovation project than a learning event. And a lot of that networking could be public.

Diversity Training 109

Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I also had a chat a few days ago with a Wall Street Journal reporter who is researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century." He asked me if the subject is important.

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Wiki Knowledge News Journal 32

Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Think like a business person. Act like a business person. It is vital to understand how a business person makes decisions – and in particular the weight they give (or not) to numbers and facts when doing so. Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers.

Business 52

Business Metrics Director Knowledge Worker 52

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete. Training consisted of supervisors showing workers how to run things.

Knowledge Worker 57

Knowledge Worker Learning Performance Support Cognitive 57

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Hierarchies are like the children’s game of telephone, where a message is whispered from one person to the next, becoming unintelligible in the process. Lead workshop: Innovation University at Eaton. Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledge work converge.

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Social Networks CLO Mash-up Mashups 36